Julie explains why she is going to be baptised
Many people who are either unchurched or attend a church that is not evangelical, have a bad experience of over zealous evangelicals. I have played amateur football and have worked in factories as an engineer; I am an evangelical Christian and have heard story after story of people who have been ‘put off’ church by keen christians whose ‘good news’ has simply been to condemn those around them!
I’m not going to attempt to write an apologetic here, rather I just want to state that actions speak louder than words. Faith in Jesus Christ, when it is real and personal, is life changing! And it is this change that speaks loudly to those we come in contact with, I would even go as far as to say that if you have not experience this forgiveness and change through Jesus Christ you are not even a Christian!
Zoe being baptised
Having said the above I quickly want to add that God is the judge not me! All I want to do is point people towards Jesus because He is the one whose death brings new life to those who have faith in him! Easter 2010 saw nine people from our church in Pocklington baptised in the street, each person said why they had put their faith in Christ before they were baptised as the Bible teaches, by full immersion in water. To do that something special had changed in all nine lives!!
Peter steps out of the water
Tags: Baptism, evangelicalism, evangelism, Full immersion baptism, Testimonies
